Re: [PATCH] BIOS boot vs EFI system partition mountpoint

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Aug 20, 2022, at 12:28 PM, Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> hello.  I fully agree with Robert, and for the same reason.  Updating boot blocks
> unnecessarily is always a dicey proposition,especially when updating machines that are far away
> from knowledgable hands.

The EFI boot loader is a different beast — the notion of “boot blocks” doesn’t even really exist in the EFI environment.  The boot loader is just a program, like any other EFI program, that just happens to be loaded by EFI when the operating system is booted.  There’s no stuffing the right thing into a special sector on the disk.  It’s entirely reasonable to expect to upgrade the boot loader when upgrading the operating system.

-- thorpej